Executive Board and Plenary Assembly

Cyber Valley Executive Board:

The Cyber Valley Executive Board (CVEB) takes decisions on ongoing matters such as joint scientific interests, cooperation between partners, and Cyber Valley operations. It comprises three members who are elected by the Cyber Valley Plenary Assembly (CVPA): a representative of the Max Planck Society, a representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg and the universities, and an industry representative. The CVEB’s current members are:

Spokesperson

Michael Black, Director of the Perceiving Systems Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Deputy Spokesperson

Philipp Hennig, Chair for the Methods of Machine Learning at the University of Tübingen.

Deputy Spokesperson

Thomas Kropf, President of the Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering, Robert Bosch GmbH.

Cyber Valley Plenary Assembly:

The Cyber Valley Plenary Assembly (CPVA) takes decisions concerning the basic and superordinate matters and strategic interests of the Cyber Valley. It consists of the following voting-entitled members:

1/3 of the votes: State of Baden-Württemberg, represented by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, and the Universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart

1/3 of the votes: Max Planck Society

1/3 of the votes: Industry core partners

The members of the Cyber Valley Plenary Assembly are representatives nominated by the partners who represent the votes of the partners (the number of members is not necessarily equal to the number of votes).

State of Baden-Württemberg, represented by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, and the Universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart
Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg: Simone Schwanitz; University of Stuttgart: Frank Allgöwer, Thomas Ertl; University of Tübingen: Bernd Engler, Philipp Hennig

AboutCyber Valley brings together international key players from science and industry to concentrate their research activities in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Supported through the State of Baden-Württemberg, the Cyber Valley partners will establish new research groups and professorships in the fields of machine learning, robotics, and computer vision in a new research center in the Stuttgart-Tübingen area in Germany. A key element of the project will be the training of up to 100 doctoral students.